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Former president Bourguiba’s standing as father of Tunisian feminism has come under scrutiny.
The pandemic lockdown added a big teaching load; female academics also found themselves having to play more of a nurturing role.
The Chrisland Schools incident shows how the media allows males to get away with actions that females cannot.
Sexual violence against women and girls in Nigeria’s northeastern region persists because of the Nigerian government’s lax response to cases of sexual offences.
From Barbados to Finland, we’ve seen women’s leadership on climate bring fair, innovative and ambitious policies.
Women entrepreneurs in Africa face challenges which make them additionally vulnerable to climate change.
Our new research casts a harsh light on the realities of working in film and television.
Two new books examine the life and legacy of an inspiring poet whose work resisted patriarchal constraints.
As a women’s rights activist, Nina Otero-Warren fought for the right for women to vote in New Mexico. Now, her image is featured on the US quarter.
Study after study has shown that men tend to be more willing to put themselves in harm’s way to help others. Why some men rise to the occasion – and others don’t – has been a bit trickier to pin down.
In democratic contexts, getting women into work empowers them. In autocracies like Ethiopia’s, this doesn’t hold. We found out why.
In urbanising communities in sub-Saharan Africa, women cooking primarily with charcoal and wood had approximately 50% higher odds of likely depression than those cooking with gas.
As crops fail in the rising heat, men are leaving many rural areas for migrant work in cities. Women are left to tend to the farming in increasingly dangerous conditions.
Offering free pregnancy tests, sonograms and counseling, the pregnancy help movement maintains more than 2,700 resource centers throughout the United States.
Widows in Nigeria are still exposed to harmful practices.
Are the same forces that threaten the right to abortion in the United States coming to Australia?
Without women in strategic positions, renewable energy projects are at risk of being inappropriate, or even failing.
We can promote inclusion and celebrate the beauty of diverse bodies without piggybacking on that relentless message about what makes women worthy.
The Portuguese artist, who has died at the age of 87, had a strong feminist streak in her work that blazed a trail for women’s rights.
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Professor of Sociology and Founding Director of The Future of Work Lab, Podcast at MissPerceived, The University of Melbourne
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Dean, John Molson School of Business, Concordia University
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Cadre en exercice, John Molson School of Business, Concordia University
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Adjunct Professor, Curtin Law School and Curtin Business School, Curtin University
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Professor of History, President, Australian Historical Association, Macquarie University
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Research Associate, Public Policy Institute, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
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Canada Research Chair in Inequality and Gender, Western University
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Professor of Communication Studies, Colorado State University
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Associate Professor, Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre, Curtin University
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Professor of Law, University of York
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Reader in Gender Studies, Liverpool John Moores University
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Professor in Criminal Law, Durham University
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Professor of Politics and Policy, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
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Ph.D. Candidate, University of Arizona
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Professor of Sociology, The Open University